We have sworn testimony that when a Lethbridge, Alta., man fled the prairie winter for a Honolulu vacation he got there so fast he was still wearing his long winter underwear. After a trip to a Honolulu laundry the red flannels came back with a bill for $1.75—because the laundry, never having seen anything like them before, took no chances and drycleaned them.

Re your editorial, If They Won’t Vote, Don’t Coax Them (Nov. 10): at first sight your arguments seemed good but. on reflection, don’t you think that if we followed this policy it might result in Commies and sectional groups getting into power? These groups do vote and, unless we can get others to offset them by getting them to vote by any reasonable means, we will find ourselves in the shape of some other nations that have followed the policy you suggest.

The Suez trouble has underlined, without doing much to settle, a question that nearly always troubles democratic governments in times of international crisis. Should normal parliamentary discussion continue or should all differences be forgotten while the nation’s political parties rally around a common foreign policy?